ПОСТНЕОКОНФУЦІАНСТВО І ГЛОБАЛІЗМ: КОРЕЛЯЦІЯ ФІЛОСОФІЇ ТА ІДЕОЛОГІЇ У СУЧАСНОМУ КИТАЇ

Abstract

The article examines the problem of correlation of the philosophical tradition of Confucianism with the ideas of globalism in the context of the influence of ideology on the mass consciousness. The transformation of Confucianism into post-neo-Confucianism and the use of its separate versions in the discourse of power and the formation of worldview and value narratives are also considered. The ideologisation of modern neo-Confucianism is recognized as one of the reasons for terminological ambiguity in defining the philosophical meaning of this phenomenon. The defining traditional philosophers and concepts of Confucianism and neo-Confucianism (up to the XIX century), rethought by modern neo-Confucianism and post-neo-Confucianism and their role in the formation of philosophical foundations of public opinion are outlined. The potential of post-neo-Confucianism from the point of view of its understanding as a civil religion of the globalized “Greater China” has been clarified. The question of the paradoxical nature of the interaction of the ideas of globalism and post-neo-Confucianism is raised both at the formal-logical level of the development of rational discourse and at the level of the mythologized everyday mass consciousness. It is shown how the power discourse can monopolize the right to ethical judgment, leveling the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual in the Western tradition, while appealing to the ethnomental features of the national worldview, historical resentment and philosophical tradition of Confucianism. It is emphasized that the subjectivity of the individual in such conditions, dissolves in social interaction, which is fully regulated by the government in the reliance on the interpretation of the state as a natural fact. The way of functioning of philosophical concepts of post-neo-Confucianism in the information space, scientific and political discourses and their influence on the achievement of social consensus, which enables the implementation of economic and social reforms, is considered. It is pointed out that the specifics of the interpretation of the corpus of globalization ideas in modern China may take the form of contradictions regarding the Western understanding of the ideas of freedom and democracy. It is emphasized that one of the reasons for this is the extrapolation of reinterpreted globalization of ideas from the sphere of economic interaction of states and businesses to the sphere of general worldview knowledge, ethics and value systems. The paradoxical situation of the intersection of the Western concept of globalism as universalism with Confucian traditionalism, which is based on the model of collective consciousness, is outlined.